PS3 has been pushing 3D stereoscopic gaming harder than any other platform. Games like Killzone 3 and Crysis 2 already look great in 3D, but there's one title that could top them all, says EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich: Naughty Dog's highly anticipated Uncharted 3. Divnich believes the next game in the franchise will push 3D gaming forward much in the way that Avatar pushed 3D filmmaking.
"Even though 3D televisions don’t fall in the budget of mainstream America and adoption rates will likely continue to be slow, something must be said about how beautiful Uncharted 3 looks in 3D," Divnich commented after viewing the game at a Sony analyst event. "I’ve personally never been fond of games in stereoscopic 3D. Sure, Killzone, Gran Turismo, and MLB: The Show look great in 3D, but I’ve personally never felt that 3D added anything significant to my gaming experience. Now that I have had to chance to experience Uncharted 3 in 3D, that opinion has changed.
"With a core focus on cinematic, story, and action, Uncharted 3 is the prime candidate to convince the naysayers that 3D belongs in video games—it certainly has convinced me.
"Uncharted 3 could do for 3D gaming what Avatar did for 3D movies. However, given the significant difference in cost to experience Uncharted 3 in 3D over Avatar in 3D, one certainly shouldn’t expect a mad mob rush of consumers to drop $3,000 on a 3D television just for Uncharted 3. Instead, Uncharted 3 will solidify 3D’s legitimacy in the interactive entertainment landscape, just as Avatar did for the 3D movie experience."
10 Comments
April 14, 2011
$3000 for a 3D TV? Where are you shopping for TV's? My brother just bought a Panasonic 50" 3D plasma for under $1000. This is the first time I have ever commented on anything and it's because I am sick of crappy journalists not doing their research before they start throwing numbers around. I do understand that comment might be a quote from Divnich, but it is difficult to tell because your quotation marks are all over the place. Even if it is and you knew his numbers were off you probably shouldn't have included that quote in your story.
April 14, 2011
Well a quick look on Amazon and Nextage show you can not actually get the Panasonic TV new for 1 grand. (I did see a referb unit for 1 grand) And most stores did not include the needed 3d glasses at the low price points. Adding all the items needed for 2 or 4 people to enjoy 3D pushes the set closer to 2 grand, 2/3rd of the 3 grand in the article. Still the idea is correct weather it is 2 or 3 grand the cost for a family to get into 3D gaming is steep. Much much higher than a few movie tickets at the local cinema. That steep price will limit how fast 3D gaming penetrates the market, even more so in this down market.
April 14, 2011
That's not true at all. I bought a 42 inch panasonic 3d plasma for 850 off of amazon. The media needs to stop being so stubborn and ignorant on this... Period.
April 14, 2011
It's Divnich's quote not ours. Maybe he said "3,000" because he just had "3" on the brain from saying it ten other times in that paragraph alone. :)
April 14, 2011
Some of these TVs are cheaper because they only go to 720p, not 1080p.
April 14, 2011
Why is anyone still buying plasma tvs? Those are not ideal for gaming. Also, we already heard that Crysis 2 was going to be the Avatar of gaming. Is this going to be a new moniker that every new 3D game uses in the sameway that every new year must somehow be called the year of the PS3?
April 14, 2011
While rare for me to make comments. Yea $3 Grand is a little high, but if you are going to do 3D, you might as well do it right and any 3D TV over 50'inches is going to cost you some dough. Throw in the glasses ($150 a pop) and a wall mount ($100+) and i am not too far off.
And you can't expect consumers to downgrade from a 50inch to 40inch just for the sake of 3D.
But you are correct, an appropriate rig can be found for around 2K.
April 15, 2011
I disagree THE 1 2 P, I would rather game on a nice modern plasma than anything else. Anybody lucky enough to have a late model Pioneer Kuro (or for the rest of us, a newer Panasonic set) knows that burn in is a thing of the past, they have a longer lifespan, better refresh rates, look less pixelated when playing standard def games such as the Wii, and cost less than any LCD/LED that come close to them in picture quality. Plus they don't hurt your eyes with their blinding brightness like my current 40" Samsung LCD (yes, I know how to adjust the picture settings). To this day, hooking up my GameCube to a 60" Pioneer Kuro at Best Buy so we could play Smash Bros Melee on employee game night is one of the most magical gaming experiences I've ever had. The Pioneer's built-in scaler was so good you couldn't spot a rough edge or out of place pixel anywhere. It was so good that I eventually brought my Wii for some SSB Brawl in a subsequent year to experience the goodness all over again. :)
April 15, 2011
Jesse,
Please just stop talking you're digging yourself deeper. First off if you can't remember what you said all you have to do is read the quote. You said, "one certainly shouldn’t expect a mad mob rush of consumers to drop $3,000 on a 3D television." You didn't say anything about getting everything necessary to experience 3D. If that's what you meant you should have said that. I wish you would make posting a little more rare because you're just making stuff up to try to make your quote correct. Why do you need to mount your TV? That's completely unnecessary. Even if you do mount the TV 1000+150+100=1250. If that's not far from $3000 then I will be happy to admit that I'm the idiot, but I'm pretty sure that is quite far from it. You just made yourself look dumber and less credible than you already looked. Downgrade? My brother upgraded from a 42" 720P non-3D samsung plasma to a 50" 3D 5000000:1 native contrast ratio panasonic for under $1000. He only payed about $200 bucks more for the panasonic. Seriously pull you head out or get a new job. I'm glad at least a few people who read this article and posted know what they are talking about.
April 15, 2011
Oh, I forgot to mention that his panasonic is 1080P... talking to you James Brightman.